Right Ho, Jeeves, chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Brinkley, next morning
Bertie wakes with a plan to fuel Gussie up with drink for his proposal, then Tuppy arrives to describe how Angela humiliated him in the larder over the steak-and-kidney pie, and Bertie reassures him that there was no rival at Cannes because Angela was with Bertie the whole time.
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Aside, the previous evening Gussie, a teetotaller full of orange juice, lectured Madeline on newts instead of proposing.
Aside, for years Bertie has long begged Aunt Dahlia to burn the photograph of Uncle Tom in Masonic uniform, and she refuses, saying it is good for him.
Aside, the night before, about one a.m. Tuppy's raid on the larder for the steak-and-kidney pie, interrupted by Aunt Dahlia, Uncle Tom with a pistol and Angela, who mocks his appetite and likens him to a python.
Aside, years before Uncle Tom's burglar complex dates from an open scullery window, and Bertie once nearly fractured his skull on the bars he put on the windows.
Aside, the past two months; childhood Bertie says Angela spent the Riviera holiday at Cannes almost entirely with him, and that as a child she called herself his little sweetheart.
Aside, last month At the Eden rock in Antibes a girl turned on Bertie after he mocked the legs of a diver who proved to be her fiancé.
Aside, weeks before, in London Jeeves's scheme of sending Gussie to a fancy-dress ball as Mephistopheles failed because Gussie never got there.
Aside, before Jeeves worked for Bertie Lord Brancaster's parrot, fed seed cake soaked in port, bit his thumb, sang a sea shanty and keeled over.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, Tuppy Glossop
Mentioned: Angela, Angela's maid, Aunt Dahlia, the diver, the girl at Antibes, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Lord Brancaster, Madeline Bassett, the man at Cannes, Uncle Tom, Ambrose♞︎, Angela's engagement ring✦︎, Brinkley Court, burglars⁂, Cannes, the Eden Rock, the gin✦︎, Gussie's newts♞︎, Gussie's orange juice✦︎, the kitchen, the larder, Lord Brancaster's parrot♞︎, Market Snodsbury Grammar School, the Mephistopheles costume✦︎, the Morning Post✦︎, the Riviera, Shining Light♞︎, the steak-and-kidney pie✦︎, Uncle Tom's photograph✦︎, Uncle Tom's pistol✦︎